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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
Yes, Bill Clinton Praised Daughters of Confederacy
In the midst of left-wing and media criticism of the Confederate flag, it’s important to note that many prominent liberals have supported the Confederacy or its flag – including presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. President Clinton actually honored the United Daughters of the Confederacy three times during his presidency, as reported by The Black Commentator in 2008.
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from The Daily Caller
Karl Rove: Only Way To Stop The Violence Is To Repeal Second Amendment
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from Daily Kos
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Chicago Tribune picks up big Walker corruption story w/ UPDATE
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Chicago Tribune picks up big Walker corruption story w/ UPDATE
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from Examiner.com
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from Freedom Outpost
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While Obama Seeks to Disarm America, Left Wingers Have Engaged in More Terrorism in America than Anyone Else
While Obama Seeks to Disarm America, Left Wingers Have Engaged in More Terrorism in America than Anyone Else
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from The Jerusalem Post
from Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)
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from The Spokesman-Review
Gunther Schuller, longtime Bach festival artistic director, dies
Renowned composer and conductor Gunther Schuller, who had strong ties to Spokane and spent 20 years as artistic director of the Northwest Bach Festival, died this morning in Boston. He was 89.
Manhunt for escaped killers shifts after possible sighting
Investigators tracking two murder convicts who escaped from a northern New York prison scoured a rural area near the Pennsylvania border today, saying an unconfirmed but credible report of a sighting had shifted the search across the state.
Coordinated ringing of bells sends message of unity, healing
For several minutes today, the sweltering skies above this grieving city were alive with the sound of bells: high in steeples and in the hands of toddlers, all ringing and tinkling in unison to honor the nine people cut down during a Bible study at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Influential WSU President Elson Floyd dies of cancer at 59
Elson S. Floyd, whose love for education took him from writing math problems in the sand as a boy when his family could not afford paper to the leader of major university systems, died Saturday. Floyd, 59, led Washington State University since 2007. His work at WSU culminated earlier this year in the state Legislature’s decision to allow WSU to start its own medical school after a hard-fought and public battle – first with the University of Washington and then with some lawmakers.
Leaders react to death of WSU President Elson Floyd
Acting president
Dan Bernardo, Washington State University acting president, was named interim provost and executive vice president at WSU in June 2013, a post that became permanent in May 2014. WSU regents are expected to decide in the next few weeks if Bernardo will be named interim president.
He followed his dad into firefighting, and stuck with it through tragedy
Ever since the day a falling piece of the burning Zukor Building struck and killed Spokane Fire Capt. Bobby Gene Hanna, his son Robert Hanna has tried to fulfill his father’s legacy. The younger Hanna raised a family and now dotes on his grandchildren, knowing that his own father never got to meet his first grandchild. He also spent a long career in his father’s profession, firefighting, with an emphasis on training and safety. On June 30, Hanna, 58, a deputy fire chief, will retire after more than 35 years on the job.
Mate saves man with faulty chute
A British military stunt team member whose parachute failed to open properly owes a big thank-you to a teammate who grabbed his chute and got them both to a safe landing. The Red Devils display team was performing Friday at the Whitehaven Airshow in northwestern England. Eyewitness Lucy Milne told the BBC on Saturday that spectators watched aghast as one of the men frantically kicked before his teammate rescued him.
Plague claims Colorado teenager
A 16-year-old boy in Colorado who appeared to have the common flu has died from a rare case of the plague, officials said. Taylor Gaes’ illness didn’t present with the telltale sign of the infection – swollen lymph nodes – which would have alerted officials to the illness sooner, said Katie O’Donnell, a Larimer County Health Department spokeswoman. Instead, he suffered from a fever and muscle aches, which at first made his sickness look like the flu.
Romney: Confederate flag ‘symbol of racial hatred’
Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012, called for the immediate removal of the Confederate battle flag from outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Many see the Confederate flag as “a symbol of racial hatred,” Romney tweeted on Saturday. “Remove it now to honor (hash)Charleston victims.”
More veterans waiting for care despite scandal
The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, the New York Times reported.
Charleston church to open for service
A small group of parishioners was allowed inside the bullet-scarred Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church on Saturday, getting a firsthand glimpse of the room where nine people from their congregation were slain. Cleaning crews worked at the church Saturday, and church members announced they will hold a service today. Meanwhile, the FBI said it was investigating a manifesto purportedly written by the suspected gunman, 21-year-old Dylann Roof.
Millions observe worldwide Yoga Day
Millions of yoga enthusiasts bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures across India and much of the world today to mark the first International Yoga Day. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had lobbied the U.N. to declare June 21 as global Yoga Day, spread his mat among rows of people, including his Cabinet members and foreign diplomats, at New Delhi’s main thoroughfare that had been transformed into one sprawling exercise ground.
In brief: Search for escaped killers moves to southern New York
The search for two killers landed Saturday in New York’s southern tier near the Pennsylvania border, about 350 miles from the prison where they escaped two weeks ago.
Anthem raises offer to buy Cigna Corp.
After getting the cold shoulder, U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc. said it’s raising its offer to buy smaller rival Cigna Corp. for about $47 billion, including cash and stock.
Homemade liquor kills scores in India
At least 84 people have died after consuming homemade liquor in a poor neighborhood outside Mumbai. Five people were arrested and eight police officers suspended pending an investigation into how the illicit liquor was allowed to be sold over the counter from a neighborhood shack.
Forums will focus on upcoming decisions affecting oil train traffic
Laura Ackerman works at the Saranac Building in Spokane, a short walk from BNSF Railway’s train tracks. Oil trains pass her office on a daily basis, and more will roll through downtown if a new crude oil terminal is built 350 miles away in Vancouver, Washington. Upcoming decisions on Western Washington energy facilities will affect local residents, said Ackerman, oil policy director for The Lands Council. The council is among several environmental groups hosting coal and oil train forums in Spokane and Sandpoint this week.
Spokane schools’ special education leader put on leave
The director of Spokane Public Schools’ special education programs has been placed on paid administrative leave at the same time those programs are under federal investigation. The district wouldn’t say when special education director Laura Pieper was placed on paid administrative leave, or why.
Pacific Crest Trail drawing record numbers seeking ‘Wild’ trek
Build a trail from Mexico to Canada, and a trickle of hardy souls will see if they can cover it, pushing through parched desert, driving rain and sky-high fields of snow. Let Hollywood glamorize the trail a half-century later and the masses will arrive, prepared or not. In its nearly 50 years of spanning the Sierras and Cascades border to border, the Pacific Crest Trail has seen nothing matching the onslaught of hikers measuring themselves against the 2,650-mile route this year. For the first time, the U.S. Forest Service has restricted, to 50 per day, the number of “thru-hikers” embarking from the trail’s southernmost point in Campo, California.
Water released from Idaho reservoir to cool salmon habitat
Federal officials have started releasing water from Dworshak Reservoir in North Idaho several weeks earlier than normal to cool areas downstream for federally protected salmon.
In brief: Man claims to have bomb in attempted Valley bank robbery
A man was quickly arrested after he walked into a Spokane Valley bank Saturday afternoon and demanded money, claiming to have a bomb strapped to his body.
Mother convicted in drowning death
A Salem woman charged in the drowning death of her 3-year-old daughter has been found guilty of manslaughter. The Statesman Journal reported the verdict Friday against 25-year-old Mercedes Alvarado came after a five-day trial.
Dog shot by police in Kennewick
A loose dog was shot and killed Saturday morning in Kennewick after it attacked a teenage boy and charged police and animal control officers.
Spin Control: No criminal charges allowed in case of late budget
The old saying that there’s never a cop around when you need one is particularly true right now in the Capitol, where the Legislature is violating the state budget law and no one is available to make an arrest.
Eye on Boise: Schools could get $3 million a year more from endowment
Idaho schools could collect nearly $3 million a year more from the state’s endowment starting a year from now. Based on how investment returns are coming into Idaho’s endowment, the state is expecting distributions to the beneficiaries – the largest of which is public schools – to jump by about 9 percent from fiscal year 2016 to 2017.
Smart Bombs: When terrorism is denied
Kathleen Parker: Charleston needs time to heal from shooting
Editorial: Do Americans care enough to stop the carnage?
Bishop William S. Skylstad: Pope’s letter on environment a call for change
Volunteers clean up, widen area trails
About 100 volunteers turned out last Sunday to brave the heat and dust as they put their muscle into upgrading Trail 100 in Riverside State Park.
Water management affects every living thing
California is dominating the headlines in this year’s drought, but other western states, including Washington, also have costly major ongoing issues with water management. Everyone’s affected in one way or another, and so are fish and wildlife. The latest expensive water delivery project in the Columbia Basin is related to the unsustainable deep-well “groundwater mining” that’s been lowering the water table in the Odessa Sub Area for decades.
‘We hit the jackpot’
Tom Fisher, a fertility doctor in Spokane, needed some of his own medicine for him and his wife to become parents.
Susan Mulvihill: Cultivating community
Peaceful Valley resident connects with neighborhood through gardening
Numbers game
Spokane is renowned for two world-class sporting events: Bloomsday and Hoopfest. The first was started by Olympic marathoner Don Kardong. The other by his accountant. Rick Betts co-founded what has become the largest three-on-three basketball tournament anywhere, and it has raised $1.6 million for charities.
BBB Tip of the Week
The Federal Trade Commission took legal action for the first time against a crowdfunding creator. Project creator Erik Chevalier promised investors special versions of a board game he sought to produce if his fundraising goal was reached. After his goal was surpassed by almost 250 percent and over a year had elapsed, he canceled the project, spent most of the money on personal expenses and promised a refund that never appeared. There are risks to donating to a crowdfunding project. BBB offers some tips for avoiding crowdfunding scams.
New chip credit cards put squeeze on small business
New credit and debit cards with computer chips are putting the squeeze on small businesses. The cards being rolled out by banks and credit card companies are aimed at reducing fraud from counterfeit cards. As chip cards are phased in, magnetic stripe cards, which are easier for thieves to copy, will be phased out. Businesses of all sizes face an Oct. 1 deadline to get new card readers and software that can handle chips. Most estimates of transition costs for small companies vary from the low hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars due to the wide range of equipment used.
Airbus makes new manufacturing push
Airbus Chief Operating Officer Tom Williams says the European jetmaker must change the way it builds planes to accommodate a pace of production ahead that’s never been seen before. What’s in the works, Airbus’ “Future Factory,” parallels what’s going on at Boeing’s plants in the U.S. For years, the balance of power between these two global aerospace giants has been determined by their sales success. But over the next few years, with both their order books full to bursting, they’ll go toe-to-toe in a massive industrial acceleration, each aiming to out-build the other. The winner will be whichever one best controls the dramatic spike in jet production.
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from Universal Free Press
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Sharia law threatens America.
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